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An established industry player is seeking a Senior Sister/Senior Charge Nurse to lead a dedicated team in the vital collection of blood and blood products. This role is crucial in ensuring donors feel safe and valued, directly impacting patient care. You will oversee a team of Healthcare Assistants and Nurses, ensuring high standards of care and compliance with regulations. The position offers a unique opportunity to develop your leadership skills while contributing to a cause that saves lives. Join a dynamic team committed to making a difference in the community and enjoy a supportive environment that promotes continuous learning and development.
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18.04.2025
02.06.2025
Senior Sister/Senior Charge Nurse
Job Summary
Leading your team in a fast moving and variable environment this essential role in the collection of blood and blood products will directly contribute to the saving and improving of patients lives.
Our donors are very special people and it is your job to make sure they feel safe, special and well cared for, creating an experience that they will want to return to time and time again. Without our donors we cannot ensure and deliver a safe and sufficient blood supply to hospitals. Your work links directly to saving and improving patients lives every day. Your leadership skills are key to ensuring the blood your team collects is safe for the patient and the giving of their donation safe for the donors; a unique challenge.
As part of the selection process you will be invited to attend a Blood Donation Session / Clinic, so that you can gain an understanding of the requirements of this essential role.
You will undertake an extensive induction and training programme, with ongoing assessment, and receive ongoing development to support you in your role and to develop your leadership and management skills.
Main duties of the job
You will lead, manage and motivate a team of Healthcare Assistants, Donor Care Supervisor(s) and Sister/Charge Nurses to deliver and maintain high standards of care to our donors and to meet our regulatory and governance requirements. Your duties will include:
You may be required to work variable hours and cover blood collection sessions as needed. This may include evenings, weekends and bank holidays. Night shifts are not required in this role.
About You
Experience and Knowledge
Qualifications and Training
Please view the attached recruitment profile which is a summary of the detailed Job Description and Person Specification for the full personal attributes we require for the role. You will need to demonstrate these throughout the recruitment process.
About Us
It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, you’ll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need.
Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do.
By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever.
You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
What we offer:
This vacancy will close at 23:59 on Wednesday 30th April.
Interviews are anticipated to be held on Thursday 8th May subject to confirmation.